something else of note, one thing i've been doing for assassination is planting poison in pockets while folks sleep. i don't want to leave a mess when i'm supposed to be a professional.

except for the

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	silver blood family. i killed all of them in their home and stacked their bodies in the fireplace for the crap they pulled on me earlier.

My sneak is at 50 but I still always get noticed before I'm completely within range to pickpocket or strike with a melee weapon. Is it because of what I'm wearing?

So what just happened? I finished the main quest?

In what seems very anti climatic.. i think i finished the game aside from side quests...i think.

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I flew on the dragons back, killed alduin and now it says I have fulfilled my desistiny of a bla bla with no other quests left?! I barely even know what happened. There were a bunch of dragons on the top of the mountain they all flew away and that was it....not to mention there are still dragons flying around the sky in the towns terrorizing people. Is that the main quest line? I'm at level 49 and I think I came across 2 Deadra the whole game. Whats up here? I turned it off kinda quick after because i had to go, because my TV is now being used by the GF, but ill get back to it tomorrow and see whats up. WTF

Or I could go nude

Yes you could. It's very freeing. You'll still be wearing underwear.

Ha!

i think I have run out of things I want to do. I have achieved all the leveling I want i.e. all my weapons are and double enchanted deadric, my armor is max'd out, and i have completed the main quest, dark brotherhood, and a crap load of side quests 110 hours in.

I have a mayb 3 more ours of play or so in it now I think. I plan on going on stocking up and going out on an all out rampage killing everyone in every town.

i guess ill join the companions and turn into a werwolf.


Anyone crazy enough to start over and build a completely new character?

I'm level 27 at this point. I have a few levels I could rank up but I choose not to in order to avoid some of the scaling enemies.

My current problem is that, on most encounters, I'm not prepared to deal with the enemy. If it's a mage, they one shot me with lightning attacks, or my armor / health is too weak to sustain damage from a heavy melee character.

I'm constantly dying and having to reload in order to devise a strategy to get by a single character (ascendant necromancer, for instance). That gets kind of old and frustrating.

I guess I need to dump more ranks into health rather than magika or stamina.

1) I don't think that enemies scale.

2) You need to enchant some weapons/armor/sweet accessories.

3) You need to change clothes for different battles. Fighting a mage? Put on your resistance stuff? Poked a giant in the foot with your sword? Put on some heavy armor...or at least some kind of armor other than your archmage robes.

Gotta bring the right tools to the fight.

I do switch it up, but I guess that's my frustration too. Battles aren't just difficult and I end up losing, they're not even a contest when I'm not sporting all the right gear, all the right buffs, drinking all the right potions with the right blessings and stones...

It's just a bother to have to spend that much time trying to defeat one of three one-shot-killer enemies in a single dungeon.

Perhaps I'm overstating how often it happens, but it seems to be happening a lot. I've enchanted a good bit of stuff, but haven't gotten far with enchanting armor and what not. Just rocking my thieves guild gear.

BTW...enemies scale within a range. Some dungeons are locked in at lvl 10-20, so if you enter them at lvl 15, most enemies will be between levels 12-17. If you enter at 25, all enemies will be at or near level 20, etc. Random encounters are based on your level, as are the bosses within dungeons and what not.

You gotta "exploit" things like enchanting and smithing etc. Buy like 20 iron inglots and leather strips...make 20 iron daggers and get that number. Enchant them all with lesser soul gems and repeat.

If you are sporting the theives guild armor then you likley got a sneak charactor. Go for the perk that give you 15x dagger damage perk. Wear the dark brotherhood gloves that doubles that and bang you have 30x damage.

You can improve that thieves guild armor if you get the smithing perk that lets you improve enchanted pieces? IMO you should look at the leveling and plan your character a bit.

If that doesnt work...put the game down, walk away and come to terms with the fact that the game wins..and you lose

haha. I don't want that! I can't remember there being a game I couldn't beat with enough time and determination.

You're right about the perks though. I haven't been using them as I wanted to wait until my level was up and I could plan out my character more and reach certain perks within a tree. I guess it's time to spend.